Abstract
What does it mean to focus on the decade as a unit of literary history? Emerging from the shadows of iconic Victorian authors such as Eliot and Tennyson, the 1880s is a decade that has been too readily overlooked in the rush to embrace end-of-century decadence and aestheticism. The 1880s witnessed new developments in transatlantic networks, experiments in lyric poetry, the decline of the three-volume novel, and the revaluation of authors, journalists and the reading public. The contributors to this collection explore the case for the 1880s as both a discrete point of literary production, with its own pressures and provocations, and as part of literature's sense of its expanded temporal and geographical reach. The essays address a wide variety of authors, topics and genres, offering incisive readings of the diverse forces at work in the shaping of the literary 1880s.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Cambridge; New York |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Number of pages | 260 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781316855546, 9781316859599 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781107181908 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 17 Oct 2019 |
Publication series
Name | Ninteenth-century Literature in Transition |
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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Andrew Taylor
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures - Personal Chair of American Literature
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